BPS Behavior & Discipline Data — PAACT Parent Resource

Behavior & Discipline Data

The data on this page comes from official state sources and internal district records provided in response to a FOIA request filed by PAACT on April 1, 2026. All figures are as reported. No data has been altered.

Sources: Michigan CEPI · SID School Safety Reports · BPS Internal Discipline Log · School Years 2023-24 and 2024-25

⚠ Page updated — previously missing data has been added An earlier version of this page reflected only state-level reporting (SID and CEPI datasets). The FOIA response also included an internal district discipline log containing 530 individual incident records spanning SY 2023–24 and SY 2024–25. That data was not included in the original version of this page. It has now been added as Section 5 below. State-level figures in Sections 1–4 are unchanged and were accurate as originally published. The internal log represents a separate, more granular dataset that state safety reports do not capture.

Section 1

Bullying incidents — district totals

SY 2023-24 vs. SY 2024-25 · Source: SID School Safety Output

Bullying incidents 2023-24

Bullying incidents 2024-25

Change year over year

+36%

Michigan statewide change

-16%

Victims of violent crime

2 (new)

District bullying incidents vs. state trend

BPS district Michigan statewide (scaled to same axis)

State context: Michigan statewide bullying incidents declined 16% (12,949 to 10,920) from SY 2023-24 to SY 2024-25. BPS moved in the opposite direction. Source: SID School Safety Output.

Section 2

Bullying incidents by school

Building-level data · SY 2023-24 vs. SY 2024-25 · Source: SID School Safety Output

Incidents per school — both years

2023-24 2024-25

School	2023-24	2024-25	Change	Notes
Berkshire Middle School	3	7	+4
Wylie E. Groves High School	0	4	+4	2 violent crime victims
Derby Middle School	3	3	No change
West Maple Elementary	2	3	+1
Harlan Elementary	2	3	+1
Greenfield Elementary	1	2	+1
Bingham Farms Elementary	0	2	+2
Quarton Elementary	2	2	No change
Ernest W. Seaholm High School	3	2	-1
Pembroke Elementary	4	1	-3
Birmingham Covington School	2	0	-2
Pierce Elementary	0	1	+1
Beverly Elementary	0	0	No change
Midvale Early Childhood Center	0	0	No change

Source: SID School Safety Output, SY 2023-24 and SY 2024-25.

Section 3

Seclusion & restraint — students with disabilities

SY 2023-24 vs. SY 2024-25 · Source: CEPI60 Seclusion & Restraint Report

Students secluded or restrained 2023-24

Students secluded or restrained 2024-25

<10

Total seclusion incidents 2023-24

112

Total seclusion incidents 2024-25

Total restraint incidents 2023-24

Total restraint incidents 2024-25

Seclusion and restraint incidents — year over year

2023-24 2024-25

Metric	2023-24	2024-25	Change
Students with disabilities secluded or restrained	20	<10	Fewer affected
Total seclusion incidents (students with disabilities)	112	45	-60%
Total restraint incidents (students with disabilities)	32	12	-63%
Students without disabilities secluded or restrained	0	0	No change

Note: Figures below 10 are reported by the state as "<10" to protect student privacy. Source: CEPI60 Seclusion & Restraint Report.

Section 4

Expulsions

SY 2023-24 vs. SY 2024-25 · Source: CEPI-23 Expulsion Data

Total expulsions 2023-24

Total expulsions 2024-25

BPS does not appear in Michigan state expulsion data for either school year. Source: CEPI-23 Expulsion Data, SY 2023-24 and SY 2024-25.

Section 5 — New data

Internal discipline log — all incident records

530 individual entries · SY 2023-24 and SY 2024-25 combined · Source: BPS internal discipline log provided via FOIA

This data was not included in the original version of this page The FOIA response included an internal district discipline log that was not part of the state-level safety reports. This log contains 530 individual incident records. Unlike state reports, it is not aggregated — each row represents one logged incident involving one student. These records span both school years combined and are not broken out separately by year in the data provided.

Total incidents logged

530

Suspension-consequence entries

234

Detention entries

139

Admin/parent conference entries

No consequence recorded

Schools represented

Incident entries by consequence type — all schools combined

Suspension-consequence entries by school

Includes all suspension lengths (1-day through 10-day short-term). Based on logged consequence codes D08–D13.

Total incident log entries by school

School	Total entries	Suspensions	Detentions	Conferences	Other / no consequence
Derby Middle School	180	99	53	16	12
Berkshire Middle School	126	65	43	4	14
Wylie E. Groves High School	50	17	22	3	8
Quarton Elementary	41	11	0	29	1
Ernest W. Seaholm High School	25	7	8	6	4
Pembroke Elementary	24	4	10	4	6
Pierce Elementary	22	8	1	0	13
Birmingham Covington School	21	4	1	2	14
Greenfield Elementary	15	1	0	13	1
Beverly Elementary	9	7	0	2	0
Harlan Elementary	8	4	1	0	3
Bingham Farms Elementary	4	4	0	0	0
West Maple Elementary	3	2	0	1	0
District total	530	234	139	80	57

Suspensions include all entries with consequence codes D08 (1-day) through D13 (10-day short-term). Conferences include administrative conferences (D02) and student/parent/administrative conferences (D05). "Other / no consequence" includes pending investigations (D16), debarments (D01), behavior intervention plans (D06), detentions logged without a consequence code, and entries where no consequence was recorded. Two entries listed no school; they are excluded from the school-level table but included in district totals. Source: BPS internal discipline log, provided via FOIA April 2026.

Derby and Berkshire account for 58% of all logged incidents Derby Middle School (180 entries, 99 suspension-consequence entries) and Berkshire Middle School (126 entries, 65 suspension-consequence entries) together account for 306 of the 530 total incident log entries — 58% of the district total. The next highest school, Groves High School, had 50. Every other school had 25 or fewer.

57 entries have no consequence recorded Of the 530 incidents in the log, 57 show no consequence of any kind. These are not pending — they simply have no outcome recorded. This includes incidents logged as assaults, threats, and harassment. PAACT is not drawing conclusions about why, but we believe parents deserve to know this gap exists in the data.

Section 6

Data sources

All data on this page is drawn from official Michigan state reporting systems or BPS internal records.

Source	Data type	Years covered
SID School Safety Output	Bullying incidents, violent crime victims, by school	SY 2023-24, SY 2024-25
CEPI60 Seclusion & Restraint Report	Seclusion and restraint incidents, students with disabilities	SY 2023-24, SY 2024-25
CEPI-23 Expulsion Data	Student expulsions	SY 2023-24, SY 2024-25
MiSchoolData.org	Statewide bullying totals for context	SY 2023-24, SY 2024-25
BPS Internal Discipline Log	Individual incident records with consequence codes — provided via FOIA	SY 2023-24 and SY 2024-25 combined

This data was obtained via a FOIA request filed by PAACT on April 1, 2026. The documents provided are reproduced here as received. PAACT has not modified any figures. If you have questions about how to request your own copies of these records, contact PAACT at paact.birmingham@gmail.com.

Section 7

What PAACT sees in this data

The following is PAACT's interpretation of the numbers above. It reflects our perspective as a parent coalition — not an official district position.

BPS and the state are moving in different directions Bullying incidents across Michigan dropped 16% last year. In Birmingham they rose 36%. We don't think that difference is something to scroll past. Whatever is driving it, it seems worth understanding.

What the data shows — and what we know from families At least one school in this district reported zero bullying incidents in 2023-24. PAACT is aware of families from that same school whose experiences during that same year — documented in writing, in police reports, and in their children's medical records — don't appear to be captured in that number. We're not drawing conclusions about why. We're noting that the gap exists.

A 60% drop in seclusions in one year In 2023-24, 112 seclusion incidents were recorded for students with disabilities in BPS. The following year that number dropped to 45. We hope that reflects genuinely better outcomes for those kids. It may. We just don't know what changed, and that information isn't publicly available.

No formal expulsions in either year BPS does not appear in state expulsion data for 2023-24 or 2024-25. That may reflect a thoughtful, intervention-first approach to serious misconduct — and restorative practices, done well, are genuinely valuable. We raise it only because several families have shared with us that serious, repeated incidents at their schools resulted in no visible consequence. Those two things can both be true at once, and we think it's worth sitting with.

530 incidents in the internal log — most at two schools The internal discipline log the district provided contains 530 incident records across 13 schools. Derby Middle School and Berkshire Middle School together account for 306 of them. That's 58% of all logged incidents from two of the district's three middle schools. Derby alone had 99 entries that resulted in a suspension of some length. We share this not to alarm, but because parents whose children attend those schools deserve to know what the numbers look like.

If something on this page connects with your family's experience, or if you have questions, we'd like to hear from you. Reach out at paact.birmingham@gmail.com or visit paact-birmingham.com. We don't share family stories publicly without explicit permission.

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